Pci Card: Priority/Order Of Installation - NEC Express5800 A2040b Configuration Manual

CONFIGURATION GUIDE

■PCI Card: Priority/Order of Installation

Standard BTO Configuration:
Starting from the PCI cards with higher priority (see the table below), PCI cards are installed to the PCI slots
with higher priority among the available slots per CPU configuration (see the table below). The following basic
rules are applied to BTO configuration. If any other specific installation requirements, BTO configuration will
not be applied.
[Basic Rules for PCI Card Installation]
st

The 1 RAID Controller needs to be installed to Slot#1.
nd

The 2 RAID Controller (if any) will not be installed (out of BTO configuration)

When External RAID Controller has Flash Backup Unit (FBU), the External RAID Controller will not be
installed (out of BTO configuration).

When the number of available PCI slot is 9, up to 8x

When the number of available PCI slot is 13, up to 12x
PCI card requiring IO space should be 8 or less except RAID Controller.

When the number of available PCI slot is 16, up to 15x
PCI card requiring IO space should be 8 or less except RAID Controller.
Priority of PCI Cards:
Priority
NE3303-168
1
NE3303-173
NE3304-132
2
NE3304-138
NE3390-153
3 NE3303-142
NE3303-H001
NE3390-158
4 NE3390-157
NE3390-154
NE3304-128
5
NE3318-H001F
6 NE3304-133
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NEC Express5800/A2040b, A2020b, A2010b, A1040b
Product Number
Revision 7.0 – December 2014
1000BASE-T Adapter (4 port) can be installed.
1000BASE-T Adapter (4 port) can be installed, AND
1000BASE-T Adapter (4 port) can be installed, AND
Product Name/Description
RAID Controller (1GB)
RAID Controller (512MB)
1000BASE-T Adapter (2 port)
1000BASE-T Adapter (1 port)
Fibre Channel Controller (8G/1 port)
SAS Controller
External RAID Controller (1GB, w/o
FBU）
Fibre Channel Controller (16G/ 2port)
Fibre Channel Controller (16G/1 port)
Fibre Channel Controller (8G/2 port)
10GBASE Adapter (SFP+/2ch)
1.1TB PCIe SSD
1000BASE-T Adapter (4 port)
Slot for Installation
Can install to Slot #1 only
Can install to any slot other than
Slot #8 and #9
Can install to any slot other than
Slot #8 and #9
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